Roster-building: Bethlehem Steel 2018
Lessons from Bethlehem’s 2016 and 2017 rosters and 2018’s partial list allows an incomplete guess at 2018 in the Lehigh Valley.
Analysis
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
Analysis
The Union, the expansion draft, and a depth chart
PSP guesses whom the Union will protect and expose in the LAFC expansion draft, within the context of its best understanding of the organization’s current depth chart.
Analysis / USL
Monday’s night’s player development lessons
While Red Bulls did not win Monday night’s first leg hosting Toronto in the playoffs, their excellent player development process was fully on display.
Analysis / Season Reviews / Union
A creativity problem — the Union’s No. 10s
PSP’s Adam Cann breaks down the DEEP numbers that reveal what went wrong at the Union’s No. 10 position this year.
Analysis
Chaos: The Canadian Premier League, NASL, and USL
Soccer Canada has approved the Canadian Premier League for play in 2018. NASL met Friday to try to appeal from U. S. Soccer’s demoting them from division 2. The only certainty about the future of minor league professional soccer in North America is that it won’t be the same in 2018.
Analysis / Featured / Philadelphia Union II
The Steel and the playoffs — it’s gonna be close
PSP looks at the Steel’s playoff chances, both the old-fashioned eyeball instinctual way and using Chris Sherman’s statistics. the techniques both old and new say it will be extremely close against Red Bulls 2 for the final slot and the right to go to Louisville on Friday October 20th.
Analysis
A more frugal 2018 Union bench?
Possible off-season organization roster promotions ranging from plausible to bold. They would clear salary space for needed help, if our salary guesses are anywhere close to reasonable.
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
Distance, time and money: USL conference realignment
PSP analyzes travel time and travel costs for the USL east and the USL west, and guesses what realignment into three conferences might look like.
Analysis / USMNT
What went wrong for USMNT Friday night
Analysis and thoughts on the World Cup Qualifier between the USMNT and Costa Rica.
Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
Steel playoff chances revisited
At the three-quarter mark of the season, Bethlehem Steel FC are still in the playoff picture but are in a dogfight with four other sides for one of the bottom three qualifying slots. Here’s our opinion of their chances.
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